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A life in writing
I graduated in 1991 with a Modern Languages degree then after some travelling worked as a bookseller, writes subscriber Brooke Adams. Over the years, I have worked as a kindergarten teacher, library assistant, antiquarian bookseller, and foreign languages tutor.
I started out writing poetry at 14 which led to writing my first children’s fantasy short story at 23. Over the next couple of years, I wrote my first two children’s fantasy novellas. It was a fascinating process to transport myself and hopefully my readers to a different time and space. After several submissions followed by rejections, I reverted to plan B and trained and worked as a teacher for a while. Eventually my thirties loomed, and I decided to move out of London and put my writing aside concentrating on juggling work and family life. I continued to read books I loved. D HLawrence, Henry James, and E MForester are among my favourites. Then there’s Tolkien, of course, and Woolf. I also like Danielle Steele – and find some of her stories so addictive. In 2007, a family bereavement triggered